"Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> :: This really sounds like a suggestion I saw earlier, in that you are
> :: hiding the file with a mount.
> ::
> :: Look at /etc/fstab.
> :: Drop to runlevel 1.
> :: Start unmounting filesystems. Do a "ls" on the mount point after
> :: you have unmounted the filesystem. If it is not empty, you have
> :: found your missing space.
>
> Mark, although this was not in my head when I wrote you last evening,
> I think Tom is onto your problem. In fact there is no
> other explanation that I can see apart from a big bug
> in reiserfs itself.
That's pretty much what I've come to...
> ...
>
> You won't be able to use `du' as it is dynamically linked and requires
> the libraries in /usr (and, itself, lives in /usr/bin I believe). You
> could try compiling a version that is statically linked and put that
> in /bin, but I'd first just look in the unmounted /usr and see if
> it's empty.
(or you could copy du and the libs it needs somewhere in /, but why
bother since):
Well, since we seem to have it isolated to /usr, its a simple
matter of ls -la /usr, eh? ;-) So we don't really need du,
I'd say... (And if its more than just /usr, there weren't that
many dirs mounted on, so its still not a big deal...)
rc
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